IPC Galway /UKIPT Galway , Radison Hotel , Galway . Dec 1st - 5th 2010

UKIPT

IPC Galway /UKIPT Galway , Radison Hotel , Galway . Dec 1st - 5th 2010

Season Two of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland launches in Galway - part of the Irish Poker Championship.

This will be PokerStars.com’s first visit of the tour to Ireland which starts in Galway ,the event will take place at the Radisson, December 1st – 5th, 2010 and is part of a four-day Irish Poker Championships.

The Main Event of UKIPT Galway will feature a €1,000+100 buy-in and will be capped at 400 with a guaranteed prize pool of €250k.

This event is a televised one and will be shown on Channel 4

As ever, there will also be live satellites to the Main Event.
On-LinE PAckages and seat only sats on www.pokerstars.com

For full scheduling and tournament structure information of the Irish Poker Championships please go to www.irishpokerchampionship.com

The ME is a €1000 + €100 4 day game, with a €250,000 guaranteed prize-pool with an
Structure is here

A super satellite for the ME is being held on Wednesday,1st of December.
There are 15 seats guaranteed for this event
Full details here

The main side event is a €320 + €30 2 day game, starting Friday the 3rd of December at 7pm.
There will be a a turbo satellite 5 seats guaranteed to the main side event @ 3.00pm on the same day
Structure is here

Side event 2 is a €220 + €30 2 day game, starting Saturday 4th of December at 7pm.
There will be a turbo satellite 5 seats guaranteed to the side event 2 @ 3.00pm on the same day
Structure is here

Side event 3 is a €100 + €10 + (€20 to charity) 1 day game, starting Sunday at 3.00pm.
Galway Deaf Society Charity Bounty Event will have five Charity Bounties
added to the event by PokerStars.com and the UKIPT. Players who eliminate
any of these five Charity Bounties will receive a bounty prize of €250,
with €150 going to the player and €100 donated to the Galway Deaf Society
in their names. This money is added by PokerStars.com and the UKIPT and
is not removed from the Prize Pool
Structure is here

Sunday will also see a €1,000 + €100 Heads-up tournament starting @ 2.00pm, confined to 16 players. Winner takes all.
Structure is here

Nottingham satellites will be run from 6.00 pm onwards

Tournament Director for the festival is Donal MacAonghusa..

He will be ably assisted by John Scanlon and Neil Kelly, and under the direction of Toby Stone the UKIPT tour manager.

Full information on the event, as well as accommadation details can be found at www.ukipt.com www.irishpokerchampionship.com
1. Who is running the event: Pokerstars.com, in association with Fintan Gavin @ The Eglinton casino.
2. The purpose of the event : commercial.
3. Date and Location of event:The Raddison Hotel 1st - 5th December 2010
4. Registration and Start time of event.--ME-Reg at 2pm thurs 2nd December , starts 4pm.
5. Any prerequisites: must sign up a membership form on the day.
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number; Max is 400. Tickets can be bought on-line at Pokerstars.com or by contacting The Eglinton casino ( www.theeglinton.com ). Tickets can also be won in the daily online sats on Pokerstars, or in the many live sats being held countrywide.
7. Type of Tournament --NLHE
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc.--€1000 Freezeout.
9. Cost of registration----€100
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund----100%
10a. Is any money from the prize fund held back for future tournaments, ---NO
11. Any guaranteed prize pool---YES---€250,000 guaranteed.
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind evels.--N/A
13. Starting Chips--20,000
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts

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N/A
15. Blind levels

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as above in link.
16. Blind timeframes---as above in link.
17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash: 12% - 15%of field.
18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill--yes---highly skilled.
19. Will there be a documented list of rules----Yes.
20. Is there a tournament director----Yes, Donal MacAonghusa, assisted by john Scanlon.
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say.---TD
22. Are there any cash games offered, if so, please outline the rake for each limit offered.
NLHE and PLO with various buy-in levels, rake 4%, capped at €20.




If anyone has any queries or questions I will only too happy to help , you can contact me at dave@pokerevents.ie

Dave Curtis

UKIPT

Eglinton €150 Freezeout Mid Month Madness last night had 5 x seats guaranteed but we saw 10 players qualify

1 Conor O Driscoll €1,100
2 Anthony Noone €1,100
3 Pat O'Callaghan €1,100
4 Padraig Casey €1,100
5 Sean Conroy €1,100
6 Ronan Gilligan €1,100
7 Liam Dilleen €1,100
8 Tommy O'Rourke€1,100
9 Vincent Earls €1,100
10 Manus Burke €1,100



For complete listings of all live satellites go to www.irishpokerchampionship.com

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